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    Detroit Lions CB Carlton Davis III won’t change the physical game

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    After Geno Smith’s 2-point conversion pass to Jake Bobo sailed incomplete into the corner of the end zone, Detroit Lions cornerback Carlton Davis III walked straight to field judge Sean Petty and asked him a question.

    “I look at the referee and think, ‘Are you going to call a PI now?’” Davis said. “(He said), ‘No, you’re fine.’ Okay, whatever.”

    Davis was frustrated by what he thought was a cakewalk during the Lions’ 42-29 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Monday at Ford Field.

    The Lions, who improved to 3-1 with the win heading into this week’s farewell game, were penalized 12 times for 101 yards, and Davis and fellow cornerback Terrion Arnold had seven of those penalties.

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    Officials flagged Davis three times for pass interference, including once on the failed two-point attempt before Geno Smith overthrew Bobo in the end zone, and once for defensive holding. Arnold, a rookie who entered Monday with a team-high five penalties, was flagged twice for holding and once for defensive pass interference.

    “I lost my cool, I really did,” Davis said. “But that was fair, because I didn’t intend to do it. I just have no control over it. It’s an emotional game and the stakes are high. They drive around the field and these PIs keep them in the game. expands it.” So that’s where the passion comes from. Come on man, let’s play ball and if they can’t get open then it is what it is, you know what I mean?’

    Davis spent most of Monday’s game with Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf, one of the most physical pass catchers in the NFL at 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds.

    Metcalf caught seven passes for 104 yards on Monday – and drew all three pass interference penalties on Davis. He was ruled out of bounds on a two-point play following Kenneth Walker III’s touchdown with 3:03 left in the third quarter, which would have cut the Lions’ lead to 28–22.

    Davis, who finished with seven tackles, three pass breakups and a fumble, was flagged for pass interference on the play, and one play after the Seahawks failed on their next attempt against Bobo from the 1-yard line, Jared Goff threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Jameson Williams to blow open the lead again for the Lions.

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    “Twelve is a lot of penalties,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “Look, I gotta watch the tape, but I can tell you almost every one I’ve seen: Carlton is fighting. That’s a good receiver he’s on and that guy is a physical receiver and we had to be physical, and Carlton was physical. And we played ball. I’m not discouraged about that, I’m just not.”

    Davis said he had not looked closely enough at Arnold’s sentences to form an opinion on the legitimacy of those calls.

    “But the flags were everywhere,” he said.

    When asked which of his punishments he particularly offended, Davis said “any” of them.

    “I don’t want to get fined because they’re sensitive to this, but honestly I can’t say what I want to say, but honestly today it was just like I felt like they were just on the side of the Seahawks,” said he. “I don’t know what I did. Maybe I should take them out to dinner or something, I don’t know. Follow them on Instagram, I don’t know. But today wasn’t my day. They just called PIs, that’s like not even, I don’t even grab. It’s not even like, ‘Oh my god.’ It was just like touch, bang-bang, that’s football, that’s fighting. And DK is a physical receiver, so that’s what’s going to happen when you get a physical (corner) and a physical receiver, you have to stand up play ball.”

    Campbell said the Lions have “things we need to clean up” from a penalty kill standpoint, but he doesn’t plan on asking his cornerbacks to undermine their physical play.

    That’s fine with Davis, who also has no plans to curb his physicality.

    “I mean, that’s just who I am, brother,” he said. “I can’t change that (expletive). I mean, even if I wanted to, but what the (expletive)? I’m not going to do that. I’m about to play my game, about to keep playing and it is what it is.”

    Dave Birkett will be signing copies of his new book, “Detroit Lions: An Illustrated Timeline” Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at Pro Sports Zone in Laurel Park Place. Order it now from Reedy Press.

    Contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on X and Instagram on @davebirkett.

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